The Next Reformation

Carl Raschke wrote the book on why Evangelicals must embrace Postmodernity and he called that book the next reformation.  As I read the book it was already out of date in this continuing conversation.  Post moderns don't like to be called postmoderns.  What they want to be called differs with whom you are talking about.  They don't like monolithic interpretations so be careful.  One "post modern" told me that if you use the term post modern it means you aren't one. 

But modern Christians seem to be behind the cultural curve.  Give us a fast ball and we are all over it but culture always comes in a curve because it is always changing.  It is hard for us to institutionalize change.  It takes time and about the time we get it done it is changing again.

Nevertheless, postmodern ministry has become a buzz word among urban evangelicals and I don't think that is necesarily bad.  The world changing quckly in many ways.  Those who define the struggle of modernity as a central force to that change cannot accuratly predict the future.  Modernism is the global economy is far from over as is modernism in christian religion.  How this dialectic is going to work its way out is known only by God.  But the discussion is very fruitful for all of us.  Not only those of us who want to reach a new generation of Christians with a new agenda of questions but all of us who live in a changing culture.  My name is Tim White and I approve of this ad.